Jeff Parkinson seemingly was everywhere at once during the final dual meet of the season on Tuesday.

He was equal parts meet director and coach, lugging hurdles around the track, making sure the spotters were in place, keeping a close eye on his stopwatch and offering advice wherever it was needed.

When it was over, and his Plainfield girls track clinched its third straight Eastern Connecticut Conference Medium Division title, Parkinson could breathe a little easy.

The Panthers defeated Ledyard, 92-58, to finish 5-2, 5-0. It was the second straight outright title for Plainfield after sharing the Medium title in 2011, its first season in the division.

The Panthers make up for a lack of depth with versatility. Morgan Griffin (long jump, high jump, shot put) and Haley Beausoleil (200, 400, pole vault) each won three events and placed second in another.

“That’s where our strength is,” Parkinson said. “We only have maybe 20 on the roster, but they’re all good. I’d say more than 15 of them are state qualifiers. We have a lot of people do a little bit of everything. Morgan does a little bit of everything, Haley does a little bit of everything, Maddie (Facchini) does a little bit of everything.”

The Panthers took immediate control of the meet from the outset, winning both the 4x800 and 4x100 relays to take a 10-point lead and never look back.

“We loaded up on the 4x8,” Parkinson said. “We knew if we put our best team out there, they couldn’t beat us. A couple of swing events didn’t go (Ledyard’s) way early. We don’t have a lot of depth, but our depth is in the distance.”

Parkinson also decided to go for broke in the 4x100, and watched as anchor Brianna Rocha came from behind to win.

“The 4x1, we haven’t really run all year,” Parkinson said. “We have good sprinters, but only about three of them. We’ve been working with them. (Ledyard’s) relay runs fast to slow and ours is the other way around, so it didn’t look good at first, but it worked out.”

Ledyard coach Dave Tetlow was hoping to at least split the first two relays. Instead, the Colonels (5-2, 4-1) were staring at a quick hole.

“The relay teams hurt us in the beginning,” Tetlow said. “We had the sprint medley relay won. We had it figured real close, but we would have needed to get one of those relays. After that, we had some other things happen. They beat us pretty well.”

Chenoa Sebastian won two events for Ledyard (100, 100 hurdles).

Both teams now set their sights on the postseason, with Saturday’s ECC meet next on the schedule.

Page 2 of 2 - “We don’t really approach the ECC meet in an effort to win it, (and) most Medium-Small teams, I think, do the same,” Parkinson said. “But I think we have an outside shot at Class M.”

The Ledyard boys already had clinched the division title and defeated Plainfield, 94-55, to finish the regular season at 6-1, 5-0. Plainfield finished 1-6, 1-4.

Joe Carter won three events (100, 200, long jump) and Anthony Saccone two (110 hurdles, triple jump) for Ledyard.